Please join SoVerA on September 10th at 7:00PM EST for a presentation by member Claudio Véliz, AIA. This will be a hybrid meeting - in person at our NEW location, the 1879 Perkinsville Schoolhouse (1862 VT-106, Perkinsville, VT 05151) and online at https://zoom.us/j/94691230307.
There are phenomena; celestial objects being detected by astronomers, currently, which are evading easy explanation. That aspect is nothing new to astronomy, of course. But this is different…it’s getting a bit peculiar.
Exoplanets were confirmed to exist since the 1990’s, and their characteristics have become increasingly familiar to observers over those three decades. But, in 2015, citizen scientists observed data received from the Kepler space telescope for one star - in the constellation of Cygnus – which was observed as being…anomalous. The light patterns were seen to fit no transit patterns with which observers were then familiar. Now, a growing number of such odd cases, all different, even, from each other, are emerging from such data.
In this 1st of a 2-part presentation, we’ll review the data from these photometric detections, briefly, and what those more typical patterns mean, so as to contrast them with the oddities at hand. Then, we’ll review a couple of these strange case studies which are securing such notoriety, and a handful of the explanations which have been proposed, including non-natural ones, which researchers now do say they cannot entirely dismiss, though with some caution.
In the 2nd portion of the presentation, scheduled for November, we’ll review a handful of new, large-aperture telescopes about to be commissioned, and the optical technologies they will bring to bear upon these extreme mysteries. We’ll cover why we may need to grow accustomed to more and more of these peculiar observations, and why we should prepare ourselves for a bit of a jolt about the nearby celestial radius of our neighborhood, shortly. Also, we’ll discuss how researchers might go about confirming any possible living systems which are detected.
Claudio Véliz pursues twin professions in architecture and astronomy. He has owned an award-winning architecture firm – Claudio Véliz Architect PLLC/AIA - since the 1980’s, designing projects from Australia, to Italy. In his astronomy track, he was Co-Founder, and twice former President of the Southern Vermont Astronomy Group (SoVerA). Previously, he worked and lectured at New York’s Hayden Planetarium, and at the Astronomy Departments of Columbia University, New York; Castleton University, Vermont, and currently in the CALL Program at Keene State College, New Hampshire.
There are phenomena; celestial objects being detected by astronomers, currently, which are evading easy explanation. That aspect is nothing new to astronomy, of course. But this is different…it’s getting a bit peculiar.
Exoplanets were confirmed to exist since the 1990’s, and their characteristics have become increasingly familiar to observers over those three decades. But, in 2015, citizen scientists observed data received from the Kepler space telescope for one star - in the constellation of Cygnus – which was observed as being…anomalous. The light patterns were seen to fit no transit patterns with which observers were then familiar. Now, a growing number of such odd cases, all different, even, from each other, are emerging from such data.
In this 1st of a 2-part presentation, we’ll review the data from these photometric detections, briefly, and what those more typical patterns mean, so as to contrast them with the oddities at hand. Then, we’ll review a couple of these strange case studies which are securing such notoriety, and a handful of the explanations which have been proposed, including non-natural ones, which researchers now do say they cannot entirely dismiss, though with some caution.
In the 2nd portion of the presentation, scheduled for November, we’ll review a handful of new, large-aperture telescopes about to be commissioned, and the optical technologies they will bring to bear upon these extreme mysteries. We’ll cover why we may need to grow accustomed to more and more of these peculiar observations, and why we should prepare ourselves for a bit of a jolt about the nearby celestial radius of our neighborhood, shortly. Also, we’ll discuss how researchers might go about confirming any possible living systems which are detected.
Claudio Véliz pursues twin professions in architecture and astronomy. He has owned an award-winning architecture firm – Claudio Véliz Architect PLLC/AIA - since the 1980’s, designing projects from Australia, to Italy. In his astronomy track, he was Co-Founder, and twice former President of the Southern Vermont Astronomy Group (SoVerA). Previously, he worked and lectured at New York’s Hayden Planetarium, and at the Astronomy Departments of Columbia University, New York; Castleton University, Vermont, and currently in the CALL Program at Keene State College, New Hampshire.
Date: Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Time: 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Eastern
Location:
1879 Perkinsville Schoolhouse
1862 VT-106
Perkinsville, VT 05151
